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Helsinki (Fides Service) - Representatives of the Indonesian government and separatist rebels from the province of Aceh, Sumatra are meeting in Helsinki, Finland to establish a set of shared principles on which to elaborate negoti ...

Ulanbator (Fides Service) - The little Church in Mongolia is growing fast. When the first Missionaries arrived in 1992 following the dark years of communist atheism, there were no Catholics in the country and they started from scr ...

Nairobi (Fides Service) - In a press statement dated 13 July issued after massacres at Turbi(Marsabit district) the Catholic Bishops of Kenya “condemn the barbaric acts of violence in the strongest terms” expressing their symp ...

Rome (Fides Service) - The point of departure for the 9th general chapter of the Consolata Missionary sisters held in São Paulo in Brasile in May (see Fides 24/5/2005) was to define the characteristics of “the Consecrated Woman ...

Nairobi (Fides Service)- Following massacres in Turbi north west Kenya (see Fides 13 July 2005) there has been an act of retaliation on the part of the tribe whose members were massacred. At least 10 Gabra were killed when the La ...

Rome (Fides Service)- The United Nations World Food Programme WFP has launched a plan to almost triple the number of people receiving food aid in Niger with emergency programmes bringing the number of those assisted to more than o ...

Seoul (Fides Service) - The new millennium puts new challenges to the family which is the cradle of life and must be protected from attacks by a materialist and rationalist culture which wants to manipolate it and subject it to sc ...

Rome (Fides Service) - According to the regional director of the United Nations World Food Programme WFP for Latin America and the Caribbean, the development of countries in this area depends on the diet of the people.
Hunger and ...

London (Fides Service) - It was a dreadful day for the country and for London especially. After the elation of winning the Olympic bid and the high hopes for the G8 meeting particularly after the huge protest march for the MAKE P ...

Adwa (Fides Service)- The first Catholic church to be built in Adwa, Ethiopia in 450 years was opened recently. At the end of June the Salesians had the joy of blessing a church dedicated to Mary Auxiliatrix built as a result of a ...

Santiago de Chile (Fides Service) - Eucharist and Masses with Children is the theme of this year’s National Days in Chile organised by the Office for Pastoral Care for Children and the Bishops’ Commission for Liturgy with the ...

Tokyo (Fides Service) -Catholic schools are a channel for evangelising in Japan. This emerged after a meeting of 190 Catholic educators who gathered in Tokyo for the 18th general meeting of the Commission for Catholic School Educa ...

Königstein (Agenzia Fides) - In 2004 Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) supported 5,900 pastoral projects in 137 countries according to a 2004 report sent to Fides. Donations sent to the International head offices in Königstein (Ge ...

Lahore (Fides Service) - “We must respect people whose faith is different from our own. We were created by God with differences and he appreciates differences which are always a resource” said Pakistani Muslim leader Pir Allam ...